Louis Blenker

Louis Blenker (31 July 1812-31 October 1863) was a German-born Brigadier-General of the US Army during the American Civil War.

Biography
Louis Blenker was born in Worms, Bavaria on 31 July 1812, and he served in an uhlan regiment that accompanied Otto of Bavaria to Greece in 1832. In 1848, he left his position as a Bavarian militia commander to become a leader of the Badener insurgents during the Baden Revolution,